Tuesday, 6 December 2016

You know when you see the clock-tower of the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, and you can't stop thinking about how it looks like some mad early twentieth century monarch of a minor Balkan state?

...Oh, don't you? I mean... No. Me neither.

In other news, the English For Pony-Lovers episode of Double Acts has been nominated for the Writers' Guild Award for Radio Comedy. Hooray! So, concentrate on that. Forget that nonsense about kings and clock-towers.

Congratulations on the nomination! Well deserved. I hope it wins. My partner loves EFPL, probably even more than I do. He asks me to put it on almost every morning, and he does it with a high-pitched 'what are you passionate about?'.

That is so cool!And congratulations on the nomination. I liked the change in relationship between the characters when it became apparent what the actual situation was - the woman suddenly went into mother mode.

I live near-ish to Edinburgh, and will never be able to view that particular piece of architecture in the same way again...

Congratulations on the nomination! I love all the Double Acts and have listened to them all many many times, but I think that Pony Lovers and The Goliath Window are my favourites. Pony Lovers because the personalities of the two women are so strongly delineated and the shift in the dynamic between them is so cleverly done. Goliath Window because it's so moving and because it's a fine example of something that simply couldn't be done to full effect if it wasn't on radio.

Pony Lovers seems to be the only one that doesn't have any discernable link, however tiny, to the others. The only thing I could think of was that Griselda in Hot Desk says that her mother is German. Clearly her mother can't be Elke, since Griselda was obviously brought up in the UK, but perhaps Elke is her aunt or something?